John Ostrander On Suicide Squad: Bad Guys Are More Fun

Suicide Squad creator John Ostrander talked with CBR at this year’s Wondercon about his initial concepts for the comic and why bad guys are “more fun”.

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"One of my concepts when I was putting it together was I wanted to show them as being competent — as being good at what they were, which was bad guys. If they weren’t, the heroes were just being bullies for beating up these sad sacks with delusions of adequacy. But by showing that these were dangerous characters, in and of their own right, when they went back into dealing with the superheroes they seemed more of a credible threat.And also, let’s face it. Bad guys are the most fun to read. They do the things that maybe we only think about. They say the things that might cross our minds but most of us just wouldn’t say it. They’re fun that way."

Check out the article for a full video interview with John Ostrander where he also talks about his run on The Spectre. Suicide Squad will show the fun part of being a bad guy on August 5th, 2016 in theaters.

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